2 Installing Oracle TopLink

This chapter tells how to install Oracle TopLink.

The instructions below tell how to install TopLink using the quick installer jar file available from the download site. A zip file is also available. If you choose to download and install using the zip file, instead of the quick installer, follow the instructions in the readme file included with the zip file.

2.1 Introduction

TopLink is integrated with several Oracle products, including Oracle WebLogic Server, Glassfish Server, Oracle JDeveloper, and Oracle Coherence. You can also download the standalone distribution of TopLink to integrate with other application servers and use as the persistence provider in your applications. This chapter describes how to install the standalone distribution.

2.2 Task 1: Prerequisites

The complete product requirements list and the latest certification information for the current version of TopLink are available at:

In the directory structure created from the installation, the TopLink libraries, schemas, utilities, and documentation are in TOPLINK_HOME\oracle_common\modules\oracle.toplink_version_no and in TOPLINK_HOME\toplink.

2.5 Additional Resources

See the following for more information about the technologies and tools used to implement the solutions in this chapter: